Topics discussed in this episode
🟣Deb's story from drum group therapist to working in a recovery center
🟣How addiction impacts families
🟣Building a personalized roadmap with private patients
🟣Best and most challenging parts of working in addiction treatment
🟣Denial and hope
🟣Autopsy of recovery attempts to find the missing pieces
🟣Disease-causing loss of job, insurance, and access to treatment
🟣Addiction is a family disease
🟣Educate families about MAT and Jellinek Curve
🟣How language and culture contribute to stigma
🟣We have criminalized disease.
🟣Advocacy needed to destigmatize addiction as we did with AIDS
🟣Addiction in Missouri
🟣How legalization can be a form of harm reduction
🟣Person-centered care from Advanced Recovery Systems, the parent of Recovery Villages
🟣What recovery means to Deb's women-only recovery group - in their own words
Addiction Podcast Guest:
Deborah Babbitt, LCSW Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Recovery Village Kansas City
Deb's Private Practice 816-807-1313
Psychology Today https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/th...
Recovery Village Admissions 816-887-7185 https://www.advancedrecoverysystems.com/
Madison Avenue Psychological Services https://www.mapskc.net/
Guest location: Missouri
Addiction Podcast Host:
Chris Langley, Co-Founder | Addiction Recovery Place
